convertion

SQL: CONVERT to DATETIME

I’ve heard that SQL Server developers happen to have problems with CONVERT function when try to obtain a value of datetime type. Recently, I’ve had that problem during a Data Transformation Services (DTS) package implementation.

One of the task in that package was “Transform Data”, which transferred data between a source and destination. To retrieve that data, I used SQL …

Media convertion

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C#, decimal.toString(), and how to get rid of trailing zeros

Today I spend A LOT OF time on trying to display a percentage – string representation of a decimal but without trailing zeros, e.g. 15.1% instead of 15.10%.

In the application I already had NumberFormatInfo for displaying monetary values and percentages. An object of that type was defined as follows:

NumberFormatInfo nfi = new NumberFormatInfo();
nfi.PercentDecimalDigits = 2;
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